Device for cooling-rooms.



D. F. SOLLIDAY.

DEVICE FOR (100mm ROOMS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.14, 1908.

v Patented June 22, 1909.

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UNITED sTArnsrn NT OFFICE.

' DAVID 1". SOLLIDAY, OF. OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA.

DEVICE FOR COOLING-ROOMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1909.

Application filed-September 14, 1908. Serial No.'452,8.63.

To all whom it may concem:

Be-it known that 1, DAVID F. SOLLIDAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oklahoma city, in the county of Oklahoma and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Receiving and Del-ivering Devices for Cooling-Rooms, of which the following is a specification.

My; invention re ates to receiving and delivering devices for cooling rooms, in which an outward projection is formed in the wall Thpobjectsof my invention are to provide a convenient device and method of transferring articles, more especially lce-cream-cans to and from a cooling room or a cold storage room without perceptible change of the temperature of said room by the escape of coldair and. the entrance of warm air during the operation. I accomplish these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming apart of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a-vertical sectional view of a cooling room provided with one of my receiving and delivering devices; Fig. 2 is ahorizontal sectional view on line a: Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a plan of the upper surface of the roof or the under surface of the platform or floor of the device; Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on line a Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is an elevation of the device removed from its seat; Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the upper and lower pivots of the device; Fig. 7 is a plan of theupper surface of the floor and the under surface of the roof of the device showing the double grooves in which the partitions are placed;

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several views.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the ceiling or roof of the cooling room, B the left ;composedof the two walls h,

ing room; H and 1 indicate the side walls of the bay-window-like offset or recess in the wall B of the cooling room and J denotes the door which serves as the outward wall of said recess.

central part 2, being a space filled with asbestos or other material comparatively imper vious to heat and'cold or t ermal action.

To provide means by which articles may All of the walls, floors and the said door are composed of three parts anouterpart or wall 1, an inner part-or wall '3 and be transferred to and from the cooling room 1 K'with a minimum loss of cold air or riseof temperature a tightly fittin door J is hinged to one of the side walls, as or I, of the rewithinsaid' recess is vertically pivoted the rotatable receiving and delivering device consisting of a roof I), a floor c, right-angled partitions d e f and g, in the resent case the anti-- thermal-packing h and the peripheral packing seat strip 5 in whichthe toreventthe escapeof co (1 air from the 1packing j is set I cess L in a manner to swing outwardly and coo ing room or the admission of warmair,

thereto during active service and for the same purpose right-angled grooves are cut 1n the upper surface of the roof b and the under surfaceof the floor c and the strips of felt =or other packing b and c is set in said grooves.

See Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4Jand'5. By a sacrifice of utility the said partitions d e f 9 maybe constructed of a single wall with the acklng tacked upon its outer edge, -whic it isdeemed unnecessary to illustrate;

To install said receiving and delivering device within said recess the device is placed vertically within the recess the upper Journal 7c is placed in a hole to receive it and the device being properly adjusted the lower jour- I nal Z is extended downward into its receptacle and to secure the journals in their receptacles the journal keys is" and Z are secured in place by the screws 7c and 1, see Figs. 5 and 6, the latter of which shows the ournals to have short right-angled arms-k and Z for heads which fit into notches in the said keys which are three-cornered stri s having holes for the screws k and 1. it the juncture of the said partitions a vertical slot should be cut for the movement of the head of each journal; by means of these journals and keys the said device can be removed at will. See Figs. 1, 5 and 6.

Grooves mm and n, n are cut in the under surface of the roof I) of the device and in the upper surface of the floor 0 for the partitions d e f g, and also the transverse eripheral grooves or seats i for the vertica packing seat strips 9'. See Fig. 7. To provlde that the said recess in combination with the said device shall be air tight the floor o and the roof 1) of the recess extend into the coolin room, in a circular manner, slightly beyond the roof and floor b and c of the said device and the circular win q and r havin hin es s and s are secured Tetween the sai r00? 1) and floor o in a manner to leave room or space between the edges p and r of the said wings to pass articles to and from the device and cooling room.

To preserve the frosty granulated uality of ice-cream and to restore said quality to partly used and returned cans of lee-cream s raying or dripping pans M N are installed in t e coollng room K and from said pans brine drips upon the ice-cream cans Q, as indicated by the dotted lines It. See Fig. 1. To su p y said pans with brine the pipes O and extend therefrom into the reservoir S and to replenish the reservoir the dri ping brine fa ls into the vats or tanks T ans U and the over-flow pipes V and W, having adjustable ends, lead the, brine into the said reservoir which is again forced into said pans, thus keeping up a circulation tending to reduce the temperature of the cooling room. The cans are immersed in the vats or tanks T and U and the flow of s ra or drip is regulated by the valves X and Y Any desired number of pans and tanks may be used.

In operation, to convey ice-cream or other articles into the coolin room, openthe door J, place a can Q upon tIrefioor c of the device and rotate it one-fourth of a revolution and place another can and so on until the device is full, close the door J, enter the cooling room through the vestibule, and remove the cans from the device; to transfer articles from the cooling room reverse the operation.

provided (see Figs. 1, 2, 4

in place an See Figs. 1 and 4. To remove the device from its recess, swing the circular win q and r apart, for which the bin es s and s are and 5) then remove the screws k' and 1 from the key blocks 7c and Z" and move them toward each, otherdisengaging the journals 7c and I, thus permitting the removal of the said device.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. In combination with a cooling room having a bay-window-like off-set; a receiving and delivering device ivoted 1n said offset consisting of a diskke roof I) having right-angle grooves in its under surface its floor being an inverted duplicate of the said roof, the said grooves having the ends of four partitions secured therein to hold the roof and floor in place and form four receiving places, for the purposes set forth.

2. In combination with a cooling room having in one of its walls a bay-window-like off-set; a rotatable receiving and delivering device consisting of disklike roof and fioor havingright-angle grooves cut therein to re- I ceive the partitions to form places for receiving articles; removable journals k and I having right an led heads to secure said device (I by which it may be removed; journal keys 7c and Z being elongated, threecornered and each having a seat or the journal headand a screw hole by which to secure the said journal key in the meeting angles of the said partitions to hold the said journals in lace, for the purposes specified. n testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID F. SOLLIDAY. Witnesses:

D. A. DUNoAN, I I. M. HoL'ooMn. 

